The Victorian Popular Fiction Association was founded in 2009 by Greta Depledge and Jane Jordan. The Association is committed to the revival of interest in understudied popular writers, literary genres and other cultural forms.

The VPFA holds an annual conference which is recognised as an important event on the annual conference circuit and offers a friendly and invigorating opportunity for established academics and postgraduate students to share their current research. The conference is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2018 and is co-organised by Janine Hatter, Helena Ifill and Jane Jordan.

In addition to the annual conference, we also run regular seminars and Study Days that are dedicated to particular topics, allowing in-depth discussions on specific popular fiction authors, genres and cultural forms.

The VPFA also now runs two publishing series: Key Popular Women Writers and New Paths in Victorian Fiction and Culture, and we are starting our own peer-reviewed journal, published with Edinburgh University Press: Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction.

If you are interested in getting involved, please take a look at our membership page. The annual subscription for members is £20 and just £5 for students.